William “Bill” Kidder

Secretary

Bill Kidder currently serves as Assistant Executive Vice Chancellor, University of California, Riverside. Bill has been an advocate for diversity and access to higher education especially in the field of law. Of interest, Bill served on a UC task force that persuaded the UC Board of Regents to grant special honorary degrees to hundreds of men and women of Japanese ancestry who were forced to abandon their UC studies and sent to internment camps during World War II. Mr. Kidder earned his law degree at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School Law.